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Category: Interaction Design History

Interaction Design History

IXD History Wrap Up

Posted on 08/11/2021 by erin

References and Videos plus my next project I hope you enjoyed the intro lectures I shared from my Interaction Design History class I taught this past fall (2020...

Interaction Design History

IXD Futures: AI & machine learning, AR & VR, speculative design & futures—intro lecture 15

Posted on 08/10/2021 by erin

Alternative ways of thinking about interactive experiences & speculating on the future We are finally into the future — and this week we read about Artifici...

Interaction Design History

Information Age: voice, design systems, mobile and IoT—intro lecture 14

Posted on 08/09/2021 by erin

We bring ourselves into the present and we contemplate ethics questions after watching contemporary science fiction clips. This week we will look at the rise an...

Interaction Design History

Information Age: The dot com boom and bust, rise of e-commerce & social platforms, accessible to universal—intro lecture 13

Posted on 08/08/2021 by erin

I share screenshots of my first website and we all laughed at how primitive it was This week we are going to ride the dot com boom and bust as the internet beco...

Interaction Design History

Information Age: Information Architecture & Richard Saul Wurman, — intro lecture 12

Posted on 08/07/2021 by erin

Where I let others tell you the details on the history of IA and we think about IA in the context of IXD This week we are going to deep dive into Information Ar...

Interaction Design History

Computer Age: AOL the first internet giant — Girl Games with Brenda Laurel—intro lecture 11

Posted on 08/06/2021 by erin

Maligned AOL and research into gender differences in games In the 80’s, on the east coast, another community was created by Steve Case. AOL started as a BBS and...

Interaction Design History

Computer Age: The World Wide Web, The Browser, Early Communities (The Well, BBSes, Usenet) — intro lecture 10

Posted on 08/05/2021 by erin

Where Interaction Design History and my personal history as a designer begin to overlap Once folks start having computers in their homes, they want to do more t...

Interaction Design History

Computer Age: Early personal computers & games — intro lecture 9

Posted on 08/04/2021 by erin

Finally we are going to talk about early personal computing and computer games. This is the beginning of what we are more familiar with compared to what we have...

Interaction Design History

Computer Age: Christopher Alexander, Muriel Cooper and Architecting Space — intro lecture 8

Posted on 08/03/2021 by erin

The week we learn how architecture in the physical world can teach us about designing in the digital world. And about design patterns. This week we’re going to ...

Interaction Design History

Silicon Age: Visioning the future & the beginnings of Interaction Design as a practice — intro lecture 7

Posted on 08/02/2021 by erin

We finally start to hear about the origins of Interaction Design as a distinct practice. It still doesn’t have the official name yet but Bill Verplank, talks ab...

Interaction Design History

Silicon Age: The Mother of All Demos — and my how the world changed — intro lecture 6 from my Interaction Design History course

Posted on 08/01/2021 by erin

This is a short intro as the content of the videos covers everything needed to think about in this section. So far in our journey we’ve seen the evolution of sy...

Interaction Design History

Industrial Age: Mid-Century Designers, Designing For People —intro lecture 5 from my Interaction Design History course

Posted on 07/29/2021 by erin

When designers designed across disciplines and brought learnings from one discipline to another After WWII the U.S. enters a time of incredible innovation and e...

Interaction Design History

Industrial Age: Between the Wars & The Memex — intro lecture 4 from my Interaction Design History course

Posted on 07/24/2021 by erin

The Bauhaus spreads to America. Diving into the concept of hypertext with the Memex and how WW2 gave us human factors engineering and Fitt’s Law Between World W...

Interaction Design History

Industrial Age: The Industrial Revolution & Manifestos — intro lecture 3 from History of Interaction Design

Posted on 07/22/2021 by erin

The Machine Revolutionizes the World and our field begins to find sparks The industrial revolution starts around 1760 and lasts nearly 100 years. By the 1800’s ...

Interaction Design History

In the beginning—part 2—The Renaissance & Moveable Type- lecture 2 from Interaction Design History

Posted on 07/16/2021 by erin

Where we learn that moveable type & paper making came to the west from China first & Da Vinci had his hands in everything Around 1040 AD moveable wood t...

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The latest deep cuts about the American Center for Design's leaders in the late 1990's, Kathryn McCoy & Meredith Davis, has now on the Women of IXD website. (Profiles mostly written by Kumari Pacheco) https://womenofixd.com/stories/american-center-for-designThe full ACD story is included in the book. #WomenOfIxd #IxdHistory

25 September 2023 @ 7:01 pm

There’s nothing I hate worse than an app over riding my settings. Looking at you kindle - why must I shift to “page in book” every damn book. And whoever said location in book was a meaningful piece of metadata - said no on ever.

22 September 2023 @ 12:54 am

Women of IXD Deep Cuts #16 is out. Educators Meredith Davis & Kathryn McCoy, both presidents of the now defunct American Center for Design in the 1990s. They shepherded the Living Surfaces conferences into being, which were some of the first for designers working in Multimedia, then the Internet and Web. They gave us opportunities to share our work and have conversations about the evolution of the designer's role into these new spaces.
#WomenOfIxd #IxdHistory https://lnkd.in/gB8FiHib

15 September 2023 @ 7:12 pm

@textfiles What's the process to tour the Internet Archive? I'd love to bring my History of Interaction Design class (12 students) to see the awesomeness.....

7 September 2023 @ 5:43 pm

I've published a bibliography for the book, now that the manuscript has been delivered (this morning). @schock & @histoftech thanks to both of you (among others) for your works I cited in my text. This list doesn't cover specific references, oral histories or interviews with specific women. https://womenofixd.com/bibliography

5 September 2023 @ 8:46 pm

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